Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies … whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases …

age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate …

contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers … pastunemployment as a sorting criterion suggests that the scarring effects of unemployment maynot be as severe as has been indicated by …

´s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well …